Mexico Teeters Between Recent U.S. Friendship and 170 Years of Hostility

Quote: WSJ

Mexico Teeters Between Recent U.S. Friendship and 170 Years of Hostility

Quote: WSJ

Mexico had a closed and struggling economy in the mid-1980s, with little American investment, and most Mexicans viewed the U.S. as their historic enemy.

Quote: Fleastiff

Tourists are often well received solely due to tourist dollars. In the Caribbean the phrase "working for the Yankee Dollar" means prostitution. Which of course made women breadwinners rather than their husbands. I don't think US tourists were ever viewed as males corrupting Mexican society, it was more just Tourists bring US Dollars so we let them dress and party as they like to as long as they pay high prices in resorts and shops.

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I think many people realize that The Wall is a Publicity Issue since Trump can't really scream about Red China or Soviet Menace or Berlin Wall stuff so whats he got left.
Americans don't take him seriously so why should the Mexican people pay any attention to his rants?

Quote: Pacomartin

The recent Wall Street Journal article attempts to put a historical context to the last year. The Mexican War of Independence (September 16, 1810, to September 27, 1821) according to the article was basically followed by 170 years of mistrust of the USA by Mexicans.

Quote: AZDuffman

Americans do not know their history very well. Mexican aggression started a war. Mexico nationalized USA oil interests.

Quote: Wikipedia Mexican oil expropriation International opposition

In retaliation, the oil companies initiated a public relations campaign against Mexico, urging people to stop buying Mexican goods, and lobbying to embargo US technology to Mexico. Many foreign governments closed their markets to Mexican oil, hoping that PEMEX would drown in its own oil. However, the U.S. government of Franklin Delano Roosevelt had issued the Good Neighbor Policy, aiming to recalibrate U.S.-Latin American relations; the U.S. government did not intervene to aid U.S. oil companies affected by the Mexican expropriation. Mexican finances suffered due to the boycott, the Mexican peso was devalued, and an immediate 20% increase in prices was suffered by the Mexican population.

In a trip to NY to negotiate with oil companies, Mexican treasury minister, Suarez, serendipitously met an American intermediate, William Rhodes Davis from Davis Oil Company, who had a refinery in Europe, and asked for a collaboration. Davis mediated between Mexico and Germany to a barter agreement where Mexico would give crude oil to Davis, who then would provide refined oil products to Germany in exchange for machinery to Mexico.

By 1940, Mexico had an agreement with the American Sinclair Oil Corporation to sell crude oil to the U.S, and the full-scale war in Europe guaranteed that Mexican oil would have international customers. PEMEX developed into one of the largest oil companies in the world and helped Mexico become the world's seventh largest oil exporter.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mexican_oil_expropriation

Quote: Pacomartin

March 1938: President Cárdenas embarked on the expropriation of all oil resources and facilities by the state.
March 1938: Anschluss is the term used to describe the annexation of Austria into Nazi Germany.

I am having trouble following your post. What war was started by Mexico nationalizing USA oil interests? Clearly there was opposition, but no war that I know about

Quote: AZDuffman

The Mexican Revolution nationalized oil for the Mexican people, 1913-1914. The USA did have troops in Mexico earlier to hunt Pancho Vila, where George Patton saw some of his first "combat" if you want to call it that. But the Revolution was pretty much internal.

Quote: Wikipedia - relevant articles of US/Mexico conflicts during the Mexican revolution

The United States occupation of Veracruz began with the Battle of Veracruz and lasted for seven months, as a response to the Tampico Affair of April 9, 1914 which was set off when nine American sailors were arrested by the Mexican government for entering off-limit areas in Tampico, Tamaulipas. The incident came in the midst of poor diplomatic relations between Mexico and the United States, and was related to the ongoing Mexican Revolution.

In March 1916 Mexican forces loyal to Pancho Villa crossed into New Mexico and raided the border town of Columbus (3 miles north of the border). In response, the U.S. launched a punitive expedition into Mexico against Villa. In mid-April, Patton asked Pershing for the opportunity to command troops, and was attached to Troop C of the 13th Cavalry to assist in the manhunt for Villa and his subordinates.The foray garnered Patton widespread media attention as a "bandit killer". He returned from the expedition permanently in February 1917.

July 1908, British entrepreneur Weetman Pearson struck oil in San Diego de la Mar. Mexico became an oil exporting nation in 1911, with the first shipment leaving the Gulf Coast port of Tampico. Article 27 of the constitution of 1917 granted the Mexican government the permanent and complete rights to all subsoil resources. This would cause conflicts between the Mexican government and foreign companies, and “lay basis for a twenty-one-year struggle” between Mexico and foreign oil companies.

U.S. President Woodrow Wilson considered another military invasion of Veracruz and Tampico in 1917-1918, so as to take control of Tehuantepec Isthmus and Tampico oil fields, but this time the new Mexican President Venustiano Carranza gave the order to destroy the oil fields in case the Marines tried to land there.

Quote: Fleastiff

I have no idea what the excuses are in Mexican history but I fear that drunken Marines played about as much of a role as did Jenkins.